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Julia Fischer started as a PhD student for Prof. Dr. Manuel Oechslin’s chair for International Economics in September 2022. Her research interests are within the field of Development Economics, Political Economy and International Economics with a special interest in the interactions of conflicts, foreign aid and FDI.

Next to her BSc. in Economics at the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien including a semester at the University of British Columbia, she completed a BA in Political Sciences from Universität Wien. After that, she proceeded with the Panthéon-Sorbonne MSc. in Economics and a research master’s in Development Economics at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. During her bachelor’s she worked as a research assistant for Dr. Birgit Meyer at WU Wien and gained professional experience as an intern at Allianz Elementar Versicherungs-AG and at the economic department of the Austrian embassy in Ljubljana.